I feel sort of bad subjecting you, first thing in the morning, to eight-plus minutes of what sounds like an English hostage taker rattling off demands. (Think Hans in Die Hard: "The following people are to be released from their captors: In Northern Ireland, the seven members of the New Provo Front..."). OK, I tease, but, [...]

Joining such gastronomic prognosticators as this one and that one, NPR's Bonny Wolf lays out her predictions for the coming year in food. Most of Wolf's ideas have been expressed elsewhere, but this one stood out to me: The recession has brought back home-cooked meals in a big way, Wolf says. "It will mean an [...]

Thefoodpeople, a product-development company based in England, offers a number of predictions on the future of food.  The people's forecast includes the usual stuff—home cooking, in-home drinking, head-to-tail cooking, etc—but  it also notes the potential rise of "free food," including foraging. I offer just two words of caution: Nicholas Evans.